none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.